On Thursday, at a town hall for Latinos hosted by Univision, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked to explain how she ascended to the presidential nomination while the Democratic Party ousted President Joe Biden from the race.
She had no answer.
An elderly Latino man who described himself as uncertain of which way he would vote spoke of Harris gaining the nomination, saying, “It seemed something unprecedented, so close to the elections. … I am also concerned about the way I feel President Biden was pushed aside.”
“How can you clarify this whole process and how you were elected?” Harris was asked.
“First of all, thank you for being so candid and allowing me to answer the question, thank you,” Harris began. Then she offered a lengthy response that gave no clue as to how the process by which she gained the nomination came about, saying, “President Biden made a decision that I think history will show was probably one of the most courageous that a president could make, which is he decided to put country above his personal interest. And he made that decision. He very, within that same period of time, supported my candidacy and urged me to run.”
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Harris then segued to a list of endorsements:
He and I have been partners for the last four years as his vice president to him as the President, and I am honored to have earned the Democratic nomination. I am honored to have the endorsement of people from every walk of life. You will probably find that I probably have a bigger coalition of people who couldn’t seem to be more different than each other, who have come together around my candidacy, from 200 Republicans who worked with and for both Presidents Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, including Liz Cheney, the former Congresswoman and her father, the former vice president, Dick Cheney, who was supporting me, former members, very esteemed members, including generals of the national security community. I have the endorsement and support of Alberto Gonzalez, most recently, who, of course, was attorney general.
After the 1968 Democratic National Convention, where delegates who had been elected in primaries and pledged to vote for Robert Kennedy or Eugene McCarthy were outvoted by delegates in favor of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the party rewrote the rules for delegate selection so that more delegates were chosen by primaries than by caucuses or conventions, strengthening the primaries.
Party leaders, disturbed that they were losing power, created the idea of superdelegates in 1984, giving Democrat legislators more power in the nominating process and the party more control over the choice of a presidential nominee.
This was clearly displayed in 2020 when it appeared Senator Bernie Sanders would gain the presidential nomination, but party leaders helped Joe Biden win South Carolina, thus launching him to the nomination.
Harris’ ascendancy to the presidential nomination came without winning one single primary vote. After Biden was forced out by various leaders of the party, Harris was chosen as the nominee by those leaders and was tacitly picked as the nominee even before the Democratic National Convention.
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On Thursday, at a town hall for Latinos hosted by Univision, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked to explain how she ascended to the presidential nomination while the Democratic Party ousted President Joe Biden from the race.
She had no answer.
An elderly Latino man who described himself as uncertain of which way he would vote spoke of Harris gaining the nomination, saying, “It seemed something unprecedented, so close to the elections. … I am also concerned about the way I feel President Biden was pushed aside.”
“How can you clarify this whole process and how you were elected?” Harris was asked.
“First of all, thank you for being so candid and allowing me to answer the question, thank you,” Harris began. Then she offered a lengthy response that gave no clue as to how the process by which she gained the nomination came about, saying, “President Biden made a decision that I think history will show was probably one of the most courageous that a president could make, which is he decided to put country above his personal interest. And he made that decision. He very, within that same period of time, supported my candidacy and urged me to run.”
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Harris then segued to a list of endorsements:
He and I have been partners for the last four years as his vice president to him as the President, and I am honored to have earned the Democratic nomination. I am honored to have the endorsement of people from every walk of life. You will probably find that I probably have a bigger coalition of people who couldn’t seem to be more different than each other, who have come together around my candidacy, from 200 Republicans who worked with and for both Presidents Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, including Liz Cheney, the former Congresswoman and her father, the former vice president, Dick Cheney, who was supporting me, former members, very esteemed members, including generals of the national security community. I have the endorsement and support of Alberto Gonzalez, most recently, who, of course, was attorney general.
After the 1968 Democratic National Convention, where delegates who had been elected in primaries and pledged to vote for Robert Kennedy or Eugene McCarthy were outvoted by delegates in favor of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the party rewrote the rules for delegate selection so that more delegates were chosen by primaries than by caucuses or conventions, strengthening the primaries.
Party leaders, disturbed that they were losing power, created the idea of superdelegates in 1984, giving Democrat legislators more power in the nominating process and the party more control over the choice of a presidential nominee.
This was clearly displayed in 2020 when it appeared Senator Bernie Sanders would gain the presidential nomination, but party leaders helped Joe Biden win South Carolina, thus launching him to the nomination.
Harris’ ascendancy to the presidential nomination came without winning one single primary vote. After Biden was forced out by various leaders of the party, Harris was chosen as the nominee by those leaders and was tacitly picked as the nominee even before the Democratic National Convention.
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